With so many people afflicted with Aids in South Africa, what is the difficulty in increasing awareness?
The biggest issue in South Africa is just education about the disease and intervention. When you go there and speak to these people in these townships you realize how much of a different world it really is. There are really simple questions that simply can’t be answered for them because there are myths and rumors that exist there and have for a while. There’s no one in place to dispel those rumors and clarify how the disease can be spread, how it can not be spread, and what you can do to make sure you don’t get it. Did your degree in psychology help you? I wasn’t really practicing any of the tools that I learned, but I think subconsciously I always think about that kind of stuff, whatever I do. What was your impression of the country? In South Africa there are parts that are some of the poorest, most rough neighborhoods I’ve ever been to, townships unbelievably poverty stricken. But there are also parts of South Africa that are absolutely gorgeous and beautiful vacation spots right out
